Electrical Engineer - System Safety

About the role

KMS Solutions is seeking a highly motivated individual to join a team of engineers and technicians providing engineering and technical support to the Ranges, Engineering, and Analysis Department at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI.

Responsibilities

• Analyze system designs, specifications, drawings, and/or models to determine how Undersea Warfare (USW) Systems are developed to meet requirements and specifications throughout the system lifecycle.
• Analyze USW systems to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications utilizing DoD and industry standards.
• Evaluate the feasibility, design, operation and performance with respect to systems safety of embedded electrical systems and components using design schematics and drawings for USW systems.
• Investigate potential design failures and make recommendations to ensure safe and effective operation and deployment and eliminate or reduce potential of system failures.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a Secret DoD clearance.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field to electrical or electronics engineering OR equivalent technical work experience.
• Three to five (3-5) years of engineering or technical experience.
• Experience in systems engineering or failure analysis engineering methods.

Qualifications

• Preferred Knowledge and Experience:
• Experience with the Weapon Systems design, testing and/or evaluation.
• Electrical engineering experience specifically in development, troubleshooting, and integration phases of a product lifecycle.
• Engineering experience specifically with weapon or energetic systems.
• Strong working knowledge of systems safety analyses using MIL-STD-882E and applicable system safety analyses.
• Experience in reading and analyzing electrical diagrams regarding Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), and electrical/wiring or control circuit diagrams.

Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, to all levels of the customer and company leadership.
• Capable of effectively working and problem solving in both independent and team environments.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong understanding of the fundamentals of electrical engineering.
• Thoroughness and attention to detail.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurances.
• Flexible spending account.
• PTO, paid holidays, military leave, bereavement leave.
• 401k / retirement savings plan.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
• Basic and voluntary life insurance / AD&D.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Voluntary AFLAC supplemental insurance products.
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) program.
• Employee referral bonuses.
• Discretionary annual bonus.

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position. After the first six months, telework may be allowed for up to 40% per week – subject to change based on customer requirements.